Sometimes you'd like to test your scripts/polices/solution before the implementation against thousands of users. And as usuall, your personal LAB is too poor, on the other side your Admin considers OU creation in crime categories. I love these stories … "I won't create this GPO until you show me that it works. " I would say a typical IT paradox. Psssst… the beer is open. Let's create some better OU structure on my LAB domain. Cheers! If you wondering how to build a domain and DC, I'd recommend you one of my previous posts: this or this. Once you've got an empty domain time to add some user and ...

I’ve been developing delivering training courses in the Azure technologies and services since 2010. During that time we have seen Azure evolve rapidly, with the addition new services and continued evolution ...

I have long wanted to get back into hands-on with some more code and write a blog website. After too much deliberation, I decided to separate the two ambitions and I started with a new blog over intended ...

“There are consistencies in what we see as inconsistent”. I said this out loud today. We have an automated UI test build where all passed 2 times in a row, now without any code changes 2 have failed, with ...

Overview OpenCV is a Computer Vision / Image Processing library. It used in ffmpeg video processing / streaming and ROS robot operating system. you can install it from here: http://opencv.org/downloads... ...

High quality reusable modules, like LEGO pieces, enable IT Pros to build automation solutions in minutes! Where can I find those high quality reusable modules? One way is to use PowerShellGet, a set of ...

R High Performance Programming is probably a unique book in terms of the material covered, I just have not see yet to date a book that is dedicated to increasing the computational capacity of the R language. ...

So this is nice. Being able to fully access RPI file system from a Mac. Just tweaked sudo nano /etc/avahi/services/afpd.se... To get hostname all looking consistent (i.e Mac and PC all see Raspberry ...

I’ve used this Nuget Packager Extension for Visual Studio with success. There are 7 well defined steps to show how to create the package. You can create a package and drop it on a network drive and you ...

In my last post I stated that the only guideline for writing good software is to make it simple. There are a number of very specific code analyses that can be applied during a code review that help guide ...

During the Chinese New Year holiday, Microsoft had just announced a new feature in V12 SQL Database named Dynamic Data Masking. This feature limits sensitive data exposure by masking it to non-privileged ...

So its been a month since I started experimenting with making oData calls from the Apple Watch SDK. I picked up the project again this evening. I wanted to go beyond the basics and try and get some images ...

Apache Storm went to GA on HDInsight yesterday, and the latest Azure SDK has Visual Studio integration for creating Storm applications. You can select the Storm Application project template: And that creates ...

So I’m syncing data to my App. It all works well, I’m looking at strategies now to disguise the (inevitable) synchronisation process. At the moment, I have a nice Windows Mobile esq. form. I’m sure I can ...

Many developers say with a sarcastic tone “You can fix any problem with another layer of abstraction”. The question is if there is any truth to this. While abstraction can increase reuse, flexibility and ...

So a while back I was listening to Corey Haines on the Ruby Rogues podcast (a good podcast even if you’re not a Ruby developer). He was talking about how the OLID principles from SOLID could all be derived ...

Overview Native activities – create an application based only on native code, without a single line of Java. Use cases: Android sensor polling – more accurate than Java eventsCross platform 3D – include ...

I was working with Wearable applications using Xamarin.Android. It was working great and I was able to run the application on the emulator and on the actual wearable device itself. The problem started ...

One of my project needs a C++ assembly for data encrypt and decrypt. We built that assembly from Visual Studio 2013 and tested in local machine. Everything ran well. But when I published to Microsoft Azure ...

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Heads up! A no small print, no catches offer – totally free learning from Packt Publishing! How it works: every day starting today there will be a new free ebook offered to claim. The campaign has already ...

As a data practitioner and BI person I am always looking for ways to present my data more visually appealing and yet easy to share. With the advance of the internet technologies and the introduction of ...

*note: for brevity, error checking code has been left out of this post. Overview The JNI API allows Java applications to invoke native C/C++ code and native C/C++ code to invoke Java. Using the JNI comes ...

This year I’ll be presenting at DevSum, which is the largest .NET conference in Sweden. I’ll be talking about Visual Studio Online, Microsoft cloud offering for your development projects. I will go through ...

What are Wearable Devices? The terms “wearable devices“, and “wearables” all refer to electronic technologies or computers that are incorporated into items of clothing and accessories which can comfortably ...

Windows Update seemed stuck on some files. I found KB971058 (How do I reset Windows Update components?) which had a bunch of suggestions. The one I tried was: Delete the qmgr*.dat files. To do this, at ...

So I’m drawing to the end of a long day and a long project. As you know I’ve been building an iPad client in Swift that uses Core Data and OData to provide offline and online access to Dynamics NAV. A ...

Two problems have appeared: Windows Update and Recovery is unresponsive – the page just show the circular hourglass thingy (what is it called?); also prevents shutting down Windows and I have to force ...

I’ve just published a new version of the CloudCasts website at www.cloudcasts.net. I published the first version in May 2009, and at the time it was running in a single web role instance on my PDC08 Azure ...

I was thinking of how to open this blog – to contrast the fact that I’ve been a Microsoft guy for so long and now here I am with an iPhone device, except…it doesn’t matter here in 2015. The days where ...

Overview OpenCL is a GPGPU API that abstracts over acceleration devices (be they CPU, GPU or FPGA) to provide data-parallelism (as well as task-parallelism) behavior. heterogeneous portability is achieved ...

TypeScript and RequireJs work well together. Writing small modular code with Single Responsibilities (SOLID principles) is a good practice in any language and JavaScript is not an exception. AMD-Dependency ...

Fed up with typing .hidden=true ? My brain only works with .visible = false Is it me, or does the World need this SWIFT extension? Just add this in a file to your SWIFT app. import Foundation import UIKit ...

OverviewA compute shader is a programmable shader stage that expands OpenGL beyond graphics programming. Like other programmable shaders, a compute shader is designed and implemented with GLSL. A compute ...

As a developer you are familiar with Web Servers, and Database Servers. Both service data, in different ways. And this creates an interesting challenge. Let’s face it: accessing data is hard. Data in databases, ...

I’m pleased to announce my latest Pluralsight course has been released: AngularUI Fundamentals. The amazing rise in popularity of AngularJS has been well documented in the last couple of years. During ...

In my previous post, I showed how you can trigger a release in Visual Studio Release Management from a TeamCity build step. When Visual Studio Release Management 2013 RTM’ed, it came with customized TFS ...

Any application we built, will not be completely error free. Application will throw an exception at one or other point. Its a good practice to handle such exception in a way that it wont expose any critical ...

Sunday evening, early evening experiment. Want to share some swift code between an iOS app and Watchkit app, simply. I’ve tried to follow a few articles, but this worked for for me. First up, just right ...

Have you ever tried to reuse code by adding existing files to a project? In Visual Studio this usually works, with the file getting put into the right location, associating the editor based on the file ...

We are not far away from SQL Saturday #365 which is occurring on Feb 7th, 2015. If you live in or around Melbourne it’s worth considering making the effort to come along. We have a great line up of 30 ...

Who's the king? Of course PowerShell. Let's try to use its beauty to create 3 node failover cluster. It's nothing unusual, where is this beauty? In remoting of PowerShell scripts. RDP is for noobs. Geeks(withBlogs) ...

I learned some new things about $.when.apply that were worth sharing. http://jsfiddle.net/logankd... · the first reject will fire the .always, but not the .then · .then won’t fire until all promises ...

I found this out the hard way the other day. We’re using TypeScript and RequireJS for development. There’s a nice way to ensure the file has a dependency, without having to import it. Put the comment at ...

We were just in a code review and one of the guys showed how he was using the MutationObserverer with our search control to get tiles to resize after the list (Knockout observable). I hadn’t heard of this ...